Excellent coffee is made up of three essential components:
- 25 per cent Equipment
- 25 per cent Beans
- 50 per cent - the person (barista) making it!
- Café Art - this is the “theatre” attached to coffee making performed by the barista.
- Café society is extending into the office and home and increasingly sophisticated ways of serving coffee are taking place in cafes around the world.
- At the office, tins of instant coffee are being replaced by small individual plungers which sit on the desktop.
- In the home, roasting and grinding coffee beans of choice is beginning to take off.
- From green bean to cup: in cafes, fresh beans are now being roasted in boutique roasting machines alongside the espresso machine. Many cafes have begun installing Green Bean Coffee Roasters to ensure they are serving the freshest coffee on the market.
- Around the world with coffee: many cafes now offer several different grinds and blends along with daily specials (eg. Kenyan, Sumatran, Guatemalan, Ethiopian, Costa Rican).

Australians consume approximately 2.4 kilograms of coffee per person per annum -and that’s nearly 1 kg more than the amount of coffee each of us drank in 1979!

Percentage breakdown of coffee consumed in cafes nationally:

- Cappuccino 50 per cent (men and women almost equal)
- Café latte 12 per cent
- Flat white 18 per cent
- Espresso 9 per cent (men consume ten per cent more than women)
Long Black 11 per cent (men consume 12 per cent more than women)
Cappuccino represents 21 per cent of all coffee sales to 25 - 44 year olds.
Seventy one per cent of all sales (in cafes) are milk-based with males   being the highest consumers.

Espresso sales are higher in 25 - 34 year old males. (Source BIS Shrapnel Out of home sales 2001)

Total value of the roasted coffee category is $68.2 million, which is increasing annually.

The top three brands in Australia are Vittoria, Lavazza and Harris followed by Robert Timms, Aurora, Melitta, Moccona, Andronicus, Bushells and Brothers.

76,000 foodservice outlets (approx 60,000 commercial and 16,000 institutional) serve roasted coffee with Victoria and NSW accounting for 60 per cent of total outlets.

A coffee table is a style of long, low table which is designed to be placed in front of a sofa, to support beverages, magazines, books like coffee table books. Coffee tables are usually found in the living room or sitting room. They are available in many different variations and prices vary from style to style.

Nowadays, coffee table is ongoing progress to be very popular a living is not complete if a coffee table is not inserted in their living room. It adds a special touch to the atmosphere and the coziness to the room.